CQOD: 03/24/08 -- Harris: counter-culture or Christ

Christian Quotation of the Day

March 24, 2008

Feast of Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, Martyr, 1980
Commemoration of Paul Couturier, Priest, Ecumenist, 1953

Meditation:
    There will be trouble and distress for every human being who does evil: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile; but glory, honor and peace for everyone who does good: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile. For God does not show favoritism.
    -- Romans 2:9-11 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    Counter-culture’s glad tidings of revolution by consciousness are neither new nor revolutionary. Christianity has been trying to achieve a revolution by consciousness for two thousand years. Who would deny that Christian consciousness could have changed the world? Yet it was the world that changed Christian consciousness. If everybody adopted a peaceful, loving, generous, noncompetitive lifestyle, we could have something better than counter-culture—we could have the Kingdom of God.
    ... Marvin Harris (1927-2001), Cows, Pigs, Wars and Witches [1974] p. 253

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, teach us Your way of peace.

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